After remaining unsolved for nearly five decades, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has identified 25-year-old Karen ...

That adverb used above — joyfully — was very carefully chosen, given that few artists exhibit more pure joy during their ...

Authorities in Santa Cruz County have identified a man who was a person of interest in a 1976 homicide near Aptos Village ...

When the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors agreed to ban the sale of filtered cigarettes late last year, it was the most ...

The youth poet laureate celebration is 7 p.m. April 17 at Cabrillo College’s Samper Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos.

Santa Cruz County authorities arrested a 67-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a child, and investigators fear many ...

The first of the four hatchlings, all female, began to emerge from its white, hard-shelled egg on Feb. 27, the zoo said. The ...

Four critically endangered western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have just hatched. And, remarkably, their mother is a first ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. (KION-TV) -- Construction is beginning on a new facility for Santa Cruz County's Behavioral Health ...

Four 2025 hatchlings of critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo are being hailed ...

A 73-year-old man is dead after being hit by a car on Highway 1 in the early morning hours near Soquel Avenue.

Mommy, the estimated 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise, became the oldest-known first-time mother of her ...